The Path : What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us about the Good Life

from jasoncomely

I almost gave up on this book for being too common sense in places (and downright boring) but intermingled are rewarding insights too.

from kukulaj

This is a quick dash through a series of ancient Chinese philosophers, Lao-tse, Confucius, and some near contemporaries. The book has an agenda, to show that these ancient thinkers are relevant today. We usually think that these folks from old and distant cultures were all stuck in traditional ru...

from evenlake

Really good introduction to Chinese thought that many of us in the West might not be familiar with. I had read many of these philosophers before, but this book opened my mind to some of their ideas in ways I hadn't previously considered

from datrappert

Short book about the application of ancient Chinese philosophy to modern life is certainly well-intended, and it makes some good points, but it just isn't that exciting or revelatory. It grew from what is purported to be one of the most popular undergraduate classes at Harvard, and perhaps this i...

from EmreSevinc

Ronald Reagan as a Daoist sage / leader? Things have taken a strange twist somewhere down the line for sure. Maybe I was just dreaming, but that's too much, even for an agile butterfly. I don't know if this is particularly about Harvard, or US style in general, but when a professor of Chinese phi...